Chapter 9: The Strange Decree

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou asked Guo Youzhi who should be asked to take Lingling. Guo Yuzhi built yì let Zhao Yun go. With the current combat strength of the Shu army, in fact, it is no problem for anyone to go, the problem is to act quickly, and to subdue Lingling before the Eastern Wu people react, it is not so simple.

This must be done by people who are both wise and brave, so Zhao Yun is indeed the best candidate. However, Liu Hou considered that Zhao Yun was already quite old, and it was unbearable to let him work again, so he asked Guan Suo to go.

However, Guo Youzhi asked him rhetorically, who will guard Guiyang when the army goes north in the future?

"What does Mr. Guo mean?" Liu Hou asked, and he vaguely guessed Guo Youzhi's thoughts.

"To the east of Guiyang is Luling, and in the north, in addition to Changsha County, there is also Yuzhang County, which can send troops to attack. Therefore, the people who stay in Gyeyang are very important. It cannot be used by people who are not loyal and can be trusted, nor can it be used by people who are not calm, wise and brave.

At present, in the army, except for General Zilong, there are only Guan Suo left. Why didn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince leave General Guan Xiao behind to guard Guiyang. "Guo Youzhi.

"Hmm......" Liu Hou fell into deep thought. Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, and Zhao Tong are all their own brothers, and they can definitely be trusted, but they are all young, have not experienced any storms, and have been living under the protection of their elders.

There is no problem with the courage of Ehuan and the vultures, but unfortunately they don't have any brains, if those scheming people in Eastern Wu come to attack them, they are easy to fall for the trick, and they are not suitable for this heavy responsibility.

As for Zhu Bao, needless to say, this general has a lot of thoughts, Liu Hou doesn't trust him at all, and it is impossible to hand over his back road to him.

Thinking about it, only Zhao Yun and Guan Suo are suitable for this. "Then why don't you let Fourth Uncle Zhao guard Guiyang, and it will save him the pain of running around." Liu Houdao.

"It's okay, but I must warn you that if the people of Dongwu really come to attack our grain route, maybe the people in Guiyang will have even harder time at that time." Guo Youzhi.

"Hehe, maybe the people of Dongwu know that Fourth Uncle Zhao is in Guiyang, so they don't dare to come." Liu Houdao, this sentence is a joke, but it is not entirely a joke, Zhao Yun's prestige is indeed not covered.

Liu Hou took Zhao Yun with him, and swaggered through the city along the way, from Chengdu to Nanzhong, to Lingnan and now to the Lingnan Northern Expedition, and it is still very effective to take it out from time to time to scare people.

Therefore, Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi discussed for a while, and finally decided to transfer 5,000 Tengjia troops from the 3rd Division and 1,500 musketeers from the 5th Regiment from the 1st Division to form a temporary western expeditionary force, which was handed over to Guan Suo under the command of Zhong Tong, the commander of the 5th Regiment of the 1st Division, as the deputy commander.

Liu Hou ordered them to control the counties of Lingling as quickly as possible, and to prevent the counterattack of the Eastern Wu army in Changsha County. The Fifth Division originally led by Guan Suo was handed over to Zhao Yun for temporary command to guard Guiyang.

The Fifth Division is the elite soldiers of the 20,000 former Eastern Wu Army, although it is a cold weapon unit, but it is still suitable to ensure the safety of the grain road.

Most of the Eastern Wu soldiers of the Fifth Division were captured from Bu Qi, and Bu Qi was the old master of these Eastern Wu soldiers, and they would still give him some face. In order to suppress these captives, Liu Hou also left Buqi to assist Zhao Yun. Anyway, Bu Qi refused to help when he went to the front line, and it was most suitable to stay in Guiyang to be responsible for the transfer of grain and grass materials.

Although according to the standards of Eastern Wu, the Fifth Division is elite, but it is not enough to see it in the Shu army. They still need to train a little bit to be useful. Zhao Yun happened to have a hand in training, and now all the troops in the Hong army have basically been trained by him.

Just taking advantage of the town to guard Guiyang, Zhao Yun had time to train them, and at the same time, it also provided enough time for the brainwashing activities of joining the army.

After arranging the troops to attack Lingling and the men and horses left behind, Guo Youzhi built a new army, and Liu Hou could lead the remaining army to enter Changsha County.

In this way, the 200,000 Eastern Wu troops in Changsha County can be contained, which can not only reduce the pressure on Jingzhou City, but also make them have no time to take care of the Lingling army, and create good conditions for Guansuo to capture Lingling.

The plan has been decided, and Liu Hou issued an order to let the generals act according to the plan. It's just that as soon as Guan Suo was sent away, Liu Hou didn't have time to leave to continue the Northern Expedition when he received news from Fei Yi in Lingnan.

Fei Yi sent someone to inform Liu Hou that there was an angel from Chengdu, of course, the angel mentioned here is not the kind of birdman with long wings on his back, but the meaning of Qincha.

Qincha brought a holy decree, the gist of which was to seal Liu Hou as the assassin of Jiaozhou, so that Liu Hou could stay in Lingnan with peace of mind.

However, Liu Hou had already set out for the Northern Expedition, and Qin Cha could not find Liu Hou for a while. Fei Yi bribed the Qin Cha, and after knowing the content of the holy decree, he left the Qin Cha who announced the decree in Lingnan to rest, and entertained others, but secretly sent someone to send the news to Liu Hou urgently with 800 li.

Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi both felt that this holy decree was very strange, Liu Hou's recital to Liu Bei was obviously to ask Fei Yi to be the assassin of Jiaozhou, how did he become himself?

This holy decree should have been written before he sent out the Northern Expedition, but Liu Bei didn't know that he had always had plans for the Northern Expedition, so how could he let himself stay in Lingnan?

What's more, Liu Bei should be clear about the significance of his Northern Expedition. Now Shu is under siege by Wei and Wu, especially Jingzhou is in danger. And there are no more troops in the country to break this crisis.

It can be said that the only strong army in Shu that is still idle is the Hong army on hand in Liu Hou's hand. Liu Bei should know that strategically speaking, Liu Hou's powerful Hong army marched north from Lingnan and could penetrate directly into the hinterland of Eastern Wu, which was of great significance to the entire battle situation.

In this case, he can only wish that Liu Hou would go north as soon as possible and go north soon, and he will definitely not stop Liu Hou from going north.

Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, Liu Bei licks the calf deeply, and he doesn't want his son to go north to risk and fight the main force of Eastern Wu, then it should be right to recruit Liu Hou back to Chengdu. How could he appoint his own prince to become an official in a wild place like Lingnan? This is a place of exile, what is the difference between this and the exile of Liu Hou?

Moreover, Liu Hou believed that Liu Bei would not issue such a holy decree because he was worried about his own safety. I have been fighting abroad for so long, where have I ever worried about him, even if it is a communication, it has always been an official recital, a holy decree, and an edict, and I have never seen him write a letter to greet his health and safety.

"It seems that Chengdu has changed." Guo Youzhi said with a frown.

"What's changed?" Liu Hou was taken aback, he had a very bad premonition.

"I don't know, but it's certainly not a good thing. It stands to reason that His Majesty would never have issued such a decree. Guo Youzhi worried.

"I hope my father is fine." Liu Hou said thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty has its own natural appearance, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not need to worry."

"So how do we do it now?" Liu Hou continued.

"At present, our army's Northern Expedition is ready to fly, and it is impossible to stop. Besides, no matter how we analyze it, the Northern Expedition is our best choice, if we retreat to Lingnan, Jingzhou will be retired, Guan Gong will be retired, and even our Han will be in danger.

Retreating to Lingnan, there were many harms but no benefits, but the Northern Expedition was able to win in danger. Your Royal Highness the Prince, please think again. "Guo Youzhi.

"But I can't be disrespectful." Liu Hou said depressedly.

"Actually, Lord Fei has already helped the prince think of a way."

"What does Mr. Guo mean?"

"There will be no such thing as a king's order, let alone if you haven't received it yet?"

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